User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Part I: Getting into the details
- About this manual
- VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses
- The Project window
- Playback and the Transport panel
- Recording
- Fades, crossfades and envelopes
- The Arranger track
- Folder tracks
- Using markers
- The Transpose functions
- The mixer
- Control Room (Cubase only)
- Audio effects
- VST Instruments and Instrument tracks
- Introduction
- VST Instrument channels vs. instrument tracks
- VST Instrument channels
- Instrument tracks
- Comparison
- Automation considerations
- What do I need? Instrument channel or Instrument track?
- Instrument Freeze
- VST instruments and processor load
- Using presets for VSTi configuration
- About latency
- External instruments (Cubase only)
- Surround sound (Cubase only)
- Audio processing and functions
- The Sample Editor
- The Audio Part Editor
- The Pool
- VST Sound
- The MediaBay
- Track Presets
- Track Quick Controls
- Automation
- MIDI realtime parameters and effects
- MIDI processing and quantizing
- The MIDI editors
- The Logical Editor, Transformer and Input Transformer
- The Project Logical Editor
- Working with System Exclusive messages
- Working with the Tempo track
- The Project Browser
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire
- File handling
- Customizing
- Key commands
- Part II: Score layout and printing
- How the Score Editor works
- The basics
- About this chapter
- Preparations
- Opening the Score Editor
- The project cursor
- Page Mode
- Changing the Zoom factor
- The active staff
- Making page setup settings
- Designing your work space
- About the Score Editor context menus
- About dialogs in the Score Editor
- Setting key, clef and time signature
- Transposing instruments
- Working order
- Force update
- Transcribing MIDI recordings
- About this chapter
- About transcription
- Getting the parts ready
- Strategies: Preparing parts for score printout
- Staff settings
- The Main tab
- The Options tab
- The Polyphonic tab
- The Tablature tab
- Situations which require additional techniques
- Inserting display quantize changes
- Strategies: Adding display quantize changes
- The Explode function
- Using “Scores Notes To MIDI”
- Entering and editing notes
- About this chapter
- Score settings
- Note values and positions
- Adding and editing notes
- Selecting notes
- Moving notes
- Duplicating notes
- Cut, copy and paste
- Editing pitches of individual notes
- Changing the length of notes
- Splitting a note in two
- Working with the Display Quantize tool
- Split (piano) staves
- Strategies: Multiple staves
- Inserting and editing clefs, keys or time signatures
- Deleting notes
- Staff settings
- Polyphonic voicing
- About this chapter
- Background: Polyphonic voicing
- Setting up the voices
- Strategies: How many voices do I need?
- Entering notes into voices
- Checking which voice a note belongs to
- Moving notes between voices
- Handling rests
- Voices and display quantize
- Creating crossed voicings
- Automatic polyphonic voicing - Merge All Staves
- Converting voices to tracks - Extract Voices
- Additional note and rest formatting
- Working with symbols
- Working with chords
- Working with text
- Working with layouts
- Working with MusicXML
- Designing your score: additional techniques
- Scoring for drums
- Creating tablature
- The score and MIDI playback
- Printing and exporting pages
- Frequently asked questions
- Tips and Tricks
- Index
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The mixer
Selecting globally from the common panel
1. Open any of the mixer windows.
The leftmost strip is called the common panel and is always shown in the
mixer. It contains various global settings and options relating to the mixer.
For more information, see “The common panel” on page 127.
2. Make sure that the extended panel of the mixer is visible.
In the extended area of the common panel, you can see a
vertical row of icons. These act as buttons and determine
globally what is displayed in the extended panel for all
channel strips in the mixer.
If you place the pointer on an icon, a tooltip appears.
3. Click on the “Show all Inserts” button (second icon
from the top).
Now all channel strips in the mixer will show Insert effect slots in the ex-
tended panel.
• As mentioned above, what can be set globally depends
on the type of channel.
Channel types that do not support a selected global option will be unaf-
fected.
• If you press [Alt]/[Option] and click one of the global
view buttons, input and output channels will be affected
as well.
Selecting for individual channels
Each channel strip in the mixer features a View options
pop-up menu, which is used for two things:
• To determine what is shown in the extended panel for
individual channels in the mixer.
• To set the “Can Hide” status for individual channels in
the mixer.
This is described in the section “Showing/hiding individual channels (the
“Can Hide” setting)” on page 124.
The View options pop-up is opened by clicking the down
arrow located just above the fader panel of the channel
strip.
• To select what to display in the extended panel from the
View options pop-up menu, you must first open the ex-
tended mixer.
You can then use the pop-up to select which parameters to show in the
extended panel for each individual channel in the mixer.
Clear all views (blank panels)
Show all Inserts
Show all Equalizers
Show all Equalizers with curve
Show all Sends
Show Sends 1-4
Show Sends 5-8
Show Surround Panners (where applicable)
Show all Meters
Show Channel Overview
Show Studio Sends